experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum … are conducted for voters and non-voters and confirm that the results extend to the non-voting population. My results …

voting rules which are criticized for being inefficient as they do not condition on preference intensities. The dynamic … information on preference intensities. Nonetheless, we show that often simple voting is optimal for two-person committees. This …

Which decision rule should we use to make a binary collective choice? While voting procedures are applied ubiquitously … qualified majority voting. Our result shows that using a VCG mechanism is not superior to voting in general and justifies the … use of voting mechanisms. It thereby could explain why many decision rules employed in practice do not rely on monetary …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets …

recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

particular, our analysis of congressional voting between 1970 and 2006 suggests that economic drivers that work through the labor …